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Fatima Festić has worked as a Professor, Lecturer and Research Fellow at various universities in USA, Europe, South Africa, and Turkey. She has published more than 40 articles pertaining to literary, psychoanalytic and feminist theory/criticism, semiotics and cultural studies, and the books The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator and Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures. She is currently writing a book on cultural semiotics."This is a fascinating collection of essays on gender and trauma across history, nations and the disciplines. Violence as both product and process links war, genocide from 16th century South America to 20th century Europe and Asia, mastectomies, slavery, rape, pornography and refugee camps. This is a book that should be used in the interdisciplinary classroom to teach students how violence structures gendered, racial and sexual identities. It illustrates from a number of different angles how memory narratives break the silence around atrocities and create communities where before traumatized individuals had thought they were alone. The reader learns how the telling of an individual story stands in for collectively shared pain and allows mourning to play its role in therapy."– Miriam Cooke, Professor, Duke University